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Covid-19 West Cheshire Community Response

Dear
residents,

These
are unprecedented times

As
local councillors for Winsford, we want to be as helpful to residents as we can
be over the coming days, weeks and months.

That’s
why we are writing to you today. We are contacting community leaders, local
organisers and residents who have contacted us in the past to share this vital
information and help it get passed on in our community. Apologies if you have
received this more than once, please feel free to share widely.

Across
our wards there are already streets, neighbourhoods and entire communities
mobilising to support each other in the times ahead. This is absolutely
fantastic and shows the true spirit of our area as we unite to tackle this
virus.

Supporting
your neighbours

If
you have started a group in your street or if you are part of a church or
community group that is planning to provide support for your neighbours, please
consider joining the Coordinated Community Response. This initiative is seeing
Cheshire West Voluntary Action, charities like Age UK, other voluntary groups,
the council, the public sector, businesses and residents all coming together to
tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

You
can volunteer if you have a little or a lot of time to spare. By working
together on a coordinated community response, we have the best chance of
meeting the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, whilst avoiding duplication,
safeguarding vulnerable people, sharing high quality up to date information and
ensuring no community is left behind. To be effective it is essential that
all groups join the coordinated community response.

You should also take a look at this guide – it is useful for people who have started their own group, joined a group like Covid-19 Mutual Aid, or started a kindness campaign in their street: Please click HERE

Please
consider posting the attached image to your social media feed to help
publicise the coordinated community response.

Covid-19
will put pressure on people’s finances and result in people having to choose
between paying the bills and buying food. Mid Cheshire Foodbank needs the
support of our community now more than ever, they are struggling to get
supplies due to supermarket panic buying. Supporting them will make a difference
to local people in crisis.

If
you are able to donate food please deliver to the Mid Cheshire Foodbank
warehouse at Unit 14, The Business Centre, Barlow Drive, Winsford. During the
crisis it is open weekdays from 09:00 – 14:00 for deliveries.

Important
information

Our
advice is to stick to credible information sources throughout this crisis.
There is lots of misinformation on social media, but the council is working
with Public Health England, the NHS and various government departments to
collate important information for residents and businesses.

The Live Well website has key local information for residents on how to cope with the Covid-19 crisis: Please Click HERE

The Cheshire West & Chester Council website has information about Coronavirus in Cheshire West and has key updates on our local response: Please click HERE

If you own a business, or you are an employer or you are worried aspects of your own employment, there is some useful information and links on the council website please click HERE

Self-isolating
due to Covid-19?

If
you need help getting supplies please contact your local pharmacy, shop or
supermarket – many are offering delivery options.

We
don’t have all the answers, but we are here to help and can be contacted using
the details below. Feel free to share this letter widely.

One final link that we would like to share is this post by Cllr Louise Gittins, Leader of Cheshire West & Chester Council about our overall plan for this crisis. It is a useful article to reassure you of what we are doing to support residents across our borough, please click HERE

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